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File this under âsuper obvious yet I always seem to forget it.â
I donât write romance (I totally respect people who do, though!) but this is also great writing advice in general! What is preventing the protagonist from achieving their goal?
Why canât these two people be together now?
Why canât the mystery be solved now?
Why canât they overthrow the evil overlord now?
If you donât have a solid answer for these questions, thatâs a good indicator that the plot could use some more work.
Also test your answer a little bit. If itâs as thin as theyâre just refusing to sit down and have a simple conversation, you might want to re-think how things are going.
As a beta reader/editor, I tend to ask this question a lot:Â âWhy are they doing it this way when thereâs a much easier path available?â Thatâs not to say that they should take the easier path, because that would usually be boring. Instead, the point is that the question needs an answerâeither eliminate the easier path or give them a very clear reason for not taking it. (And if Iâm asking the question, that reason isnât as clear as you think it might be.)
I find it very difficult to root for characters who have a sensible option available and just donât take it. If the only reason is âBecause there wouldnât be a story otherwise,â you havenât actually found the story yet.
And this is why the Big Misunderstanding as a primary plot device is almost universally disliked.
like if it has to be a big misunderstanding plot, make at least part of it about how one or both characters involved in the big misunderstanding need to learn to communicate as part of the plot resolution
or if it has to be a âweâre ignoring an easier wayâ make a plot point be about a character whose participation would be key, pridefully refusing, or maybe about the characters being ignorant to the easier wayâs existence due to their inexperience doing [x] thing
there are ways to do these plots well, but involve you invoking flaws in the characters
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